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PO395: From sub-seasonal to climate projections: seamless climate information for renewable energy resource assessment
Albert Soret, Earth System Services Group Leader, Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Abstract
Europe’s ambition to achieve climate neutrality by 2050, in line with the European Green Deal, requires a major transformation from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. While essential, this transition is complicated by the climate-dependent nature of renewables, which introduces challenges of variability, reliability, and integration into power systems. Climate predictions across multiple timescales are increasingly recognised as valuable tools to anticipate both energy demand and renewable supply fluctuations, reducing climate risks and supporting informed decision-making. From an energy-sector perspective, decision-making benefits greatly from temporally continuous and methodologically consistent climate information, supporting processes from short-term operations to long-term strategic planning. However, the climate science community’s efforts remain uneven across timescales. Sub-seasonal forecasts are less used than weather or seasonal predictions, while decadal forecasts (1–10 years) — critical for medium-term planning — are less mature and less integrated into operational services than seasonal forecasts or long-term projections. The BOREAS project addresses these gaps by developing seamless climate products spanning sub-seasonal, seasonal, decadal, and long-term horizons. Using a co-development approach with energy sector stakeholders, BOREAS ensures that outputs meet user needs and that prediction tools are translated into practical planning and operational applications. These efforts contribute to Europe’s renewable energy transition and support climate adaptation strategies at multiple scales. Currently, BOREAS is delivering harmonised, user-tailored climate information specifically for the renewable energy sector. This is made available through a dedicated visual platform (Shiny App), which is regularly updated. The interface serves both as a dissemination channel and as an operational decision-support tool, offering real-time forecasts, interactive visualisations, and documentation. This ensures effective uptake and integration of climate information into renewable energy resource assessment and system planning.
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